52° 16’ 25.07.71” N
2° 10’ 44.8” W
elev. 54m
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Westwood House, near Droitwich in
Worcestershire is a stately home that has been subdivided into twelve
self-contained apartments. Situated west of Droitwich, the house with origins
as an Elizabethan banqueting hall with Caroline additions is a grade
1 listed building and was for several centuries the seat of the Pakington
family.
Situated on a rising ground, the
house greatly resembles a Norman chateau; it is built of brick with stone
quoins and parapets. The body of the house is square, and three storeys high;
the saloon occupied the first floor, and was lighted by large bay windows.
Wings project in a line from the centre of each corner of the house, and
communicate, by doors on each floor, with the central building. At some
distance from each wing, yet opposite to them, are small square towers that
were once connected by walls with the main building; but the walls have been
removed, or fallen, and the towers now stand alone.
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entry Summary:
This garden or other land is registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by English Heritage for its special historic interest.
Name: WESTWOOD PARK
List entry Number: 1000899
HISTORIC
DEVELOPMENT
Westwood was a nunnery in the Middle Ages. At the Dissolution it passed to Sir John Pakington (d 1560), whose main seat of Hampton Lovett lay 2km to the north-east. His grandson John Pakington (kt 1593, d 1625), who inherited in 1571, built a hunting box here, which after the Civil War became the Pakingtons' principal residence. It remained a part of the Hampton Lovett estate and in the ownership of the Pakingtons until the estate was sold c 1900. The house was bought in the early C20 by the first Lord Doverdale, but on the death of the third and last Baron (who married an Australian chorus girl) it was sold and eventually became flats. The park passed into separate ownership in the C20 and by the late C20 was intensively farmed.
Westwood was a nunnery in the Middle Ages. At the Dissolution it passed to Sir John Pakington (d 1560), whose main seat of Hampton Lovett lay 2km to the north-east. His grandson John Pakington (kt 1593, d 1625), who inherited in 1571, built a hunting box here, which after the Civil War became the Pakingtons' principal residence. It remained a part of the Hampton Lovett estate and in the ownership of the Pakingtons until the estate was sold c 1900. The house was bought in the early C20 by the first Lord Doverdale, but on the death of the third and last Baron (who married an Australian chorus girl) it was sold and eventually became flats. The park passed into separate ownership in the C20 and by the late C20 was intensively farmed.
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Note: Renowned Anglo-Polish cellist, Irena Poznan lived in Westwood Park for some years. It was here that she composed her celebrated work Westwood Variations,. An review of the work's remarkable premier at New York's Alice Truly Hall can be found here: New York City Review
voceti: A letter to JaneyNote: Renowned Anglo-Polish cellist, Irena Poznan lived in Westwood Park for some years. It was here that she composed her celebrated work Westwood Variations,. An review of the work's remarkable premier at New York's Alice Truly Hall can be found here: New York City Review
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